In 'I Have Some Questions For You,' a woman returns to her boarding school and reopens past traumas
. It calls into question our relationships to memory and power while also challenging readers to reconsider how we think about race, sex, and class.
“The original heart of the story was this idea of what happens when people come back together,” Makkai says. “Not just to have a few drinks and look through old yearbooks, but because they need to reckon with something that society saw a certain way a long time ago—and how people’s perceptions really changed.”
Makkai is the author of three previous novels and a collection of short stories, and though the books take place in distinct worlds, an obsession with the passage of time runs through them all. Her 2014 novelfocuses on a century of secrets held by generations of a family, while 2018’swhich was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, traverses three decades to tell the story of a friend group shaped by the AIDS epidemic.
What Bodie and Makkai do share in common is that both felt like outsiders at certain points during their time in school—and both have gained perspective since then.
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